Thread: Is Russia a democracy? Плюс то же о некоторых других странах

Is Yurka a Communist/Marxist supporter? Even after translating, his posts make little sense.

RedFox, do you like Navalny? Do you really think he's a legitimate 'Opposition' candidate? Even after getting a 5 yr sentence and is released the next day?

Imho, the Putin regime, in a nutshell: 1) attempt to establish a EurAsian country (tons of migrants - have lots of non-European foreigners and promote Putin-based support, in other words: status quo); 2) 'Westernize' the country with similar brainwashing/indoctrination - but, have it according to the Kremlin's rules... 3) have their own version of a Police State; 4) special interest groups (who are NOT ethnic-Russian) are given considerable power despite their low % numbers of the population - as long as they tow the Kremlin line - they can all steal together.

"У России есть самодостаточность" - Что? Нет. Putin doesn't promote self-sufficiency. He does promote theft, though.

Originally Posted by 14Russian

RedFox, do you like Navalny? Do you really think he's a legitimate 'Opposition' candidate? Even after getting a 5 yr sentence and is released the next day?

Well, I can say, Navalny is not the president I'd like to see elected. Nor even the Major of Moscow or any other city.
But Navalny doing great job of bringing Real Democracy back to the Russian politics. And the word democracy means not only elections in that case, but dramatic change in people's minds.
Even if he were an alien from Mars, he would be helpful.
So... Do I really believe he is such a person as he states himself? Well, I do. I think he is an ordinary lawyer suddenly got into politics. All that is not an evil plan of KGB/CIA/worldwide-jewish-goverment/reptiles-from-Sirius/whatever.

What about his sentence, he was released not from sentence, but from... mmm... arrest. (I don't remember how it is in Russian exactly, so have no idea how it is in English). Until решение вступило в законную силу, a person can file an appeal, and a judge should назначить меру пресечения for that period of time. A prosecutor asked for arrest as мера пресечения, and the judge accepted this. But the next day the prosecutor changed his mind. Why? In my opinion, there are people in Putin environment who plays against Putin. Authorities are not monolithic, and I think Putin has a lot of enemies there. So those people just use Navalny to rock the boat.
It is not the reason one would stop of trusting Navalny.

And one more thing. Putin is just an old sick man, so he could get frightened and changed his mind by himself at the last moment. While the command reached the prosecutor, Navalny had already arrested.

For now, real 5 yr sentence is replaced with suspended sentence.

Originally Posted by 14Russian

"У России есть самодостаточность" - Что? Нет. Putin doesn't promote self-sufficiency. He does promote theft, though.

theft-sufficiency? Sounds great! ROFL